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The url was registered in april and has been in development since. I recently noticed that the site had had a visit from googlebot and was since added to googles index. The site is not linked so google seem to have picked it up via domain registers. (.se domain)

I guess the advanced features of the google toolbar could trigger google to know about your pages!

I know in the case of Alexa this is the case... an example is this: I wrote an admin area, and was running some tests online (I had not set-up any password on the pages yet). Anyway, I came back the next day and all the links in the admin area had been visited... the problem was the links where things like 'Edit' or 'Delete'. Imagine my shook when I came back the next day to find all my content deleted, LOL. A hard lesson learned. (My logs showed alexa had visted those pages!)

I know that the google toolbar does take note of pages visited if the advanced features (i.e. pagerank ect) are enabled.... perhaps this is how they found the pages! Although I can't say with certainty they record all visited pages - but I guess they need to, to try and get the PR of that page!

When designing a website I always use a robots text disallowing all SEs as well as a nofollow/noindex meta tag on each page until it's ready and I don't recall an SE ever listing anything before I wanted it to.

Also when redesigning a site I usually post it on my own domain until its ready to be uploaded to the client site. I use the nofollow/noindex meta tags and robots text on it also until time to upload.

Wow, this is all news to us. We have an entire duplicate site, a test duplicate, for a site dealing with [well...], a test site where amateur-SEO friends read new topics we don't want the world to see yet, due to the fact that we're amateurs ourselves and often under the influence. In other words, no one knows about this test site but us and close friends with too much time on their hands. Or so we thought.

Okay, we just now checked and it seems no one else knows about it, but maybe we should make preparations.

We've always left our test pages "live," never having considered the possibility that anyone could ever find them. We actually started doing this because we trust live pages over our design app's test feature and we're always making modifications.

I was making a new site from last 2 months...I didn't disallow my site to SE's. In the latest update...Google crawled my site and gave home page PR - 2... Though internal pages are still 0.. My site has not compleated yet even donot linked properly.. What should I do now? I think now its difficult to improve my PR in future...will it remain 2?

>>What should I do now? I think now its difficult to improve my PR in future...will it remain 2?

What you should do now is keep making your site better for your visitors. That's your job. The PR is Google's job. No, it won't remain PR2 - get a *few* good quality links at a time and it'll start to go up - but don't obsess about PR, just work on the site and give it time.

Google crawled my site and gave home page PR - 2... Though internal pages are still 0..

Totally not joking here ... really ... but IMDb has really good PR, yet all the pages that link to us are really low, even though IMDb is a directory edited by people (as opposed to some place where you go and just add your link).

I was under the impression that PR spread from page to page, and I often notice that many sites have a pretty consistent PR throughout the whole site. I assume, then, that Window's site will even out after a while, as do most, or am I just way off?

FWIW, each of my sites have far different PR's throughout their pages. I think it depends some on how/if you link to each of your pages FROM each of your pages, like a nav menu that has ALL links in it on each page. Now I even do that for most pages and of those pages even they have different PR's. That would probably be indicative of whom and how many are linking to your internal pages.

each of my sites have far different PR's throughout their pages. I think it depends some on how/if you link to each of your pages FROM each of your pages, like a nav menu that has ALL links in it on each page.

Well, besides being free of social restraints ("make your pictures smaller"; "spend more time on design and less time screen capping every blessed frame of the movie"; "do not have an opinion"...), being unpopular does have another advantage: for a very long time, each and every page of your site will have exactly the same PR! :o)

We're just now learning how to properly utilize the template feature; what you're saying about links in the nav menu will come in mighty handy, so thank you.